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Famous Film Festival (Sun. 7:30 p.m., ABC). Part I of Shaw's Caesar and Cleopatra, with Claude Rains, Vivien Leigh...
...between such differing masters of dialectics and irony, there is something poignant and lyrical (because more pessimistic) in Giraudoux that is not found in Shaw. Yet here the two men touch, for Shaw wrote a kind of Tiger at the Gates in Caesar and Cleopatra. Each man saw worlds about to overturn through a queen's lure; in Shaw's Caesar as in Giraudoux's Hector, the great warrior is the great hater of war; in Shaw's Caesar as in Giraudoux's Ulysses, the wise man sadly grasps the impotence of wisdom. And both...
...Presents is an hour-long filmed show that will alternate adventure, romance and Western drama. M-G-M Parade will present shorts and film clips from new productions. Famous Film Festival offers 35 British movies, including such excellent ones as Great Expectations, Brief Encounter, Odd Man Out, Caesar and Cleopatra, The Red Shoes and Tight Little Island...
...vital statistics of his life are obscured by stubborn legend. Born in a suburb of Constantinople, less than a decade after the huge oil reserves of Russia were first tapped, Gulbenkian was said to have been smuggled into England by his father at the age of three, wrapped, like Cleopatra, in a rug. Likelier history suggests that he came later and in more orthodox fashion to take an engineering degree at London's King's College. Whatever the case, his first impact on the oil business occurred when he visited the oilfields of Baku and published a scholarly...
Casting Shakespeare in modern dress, Orson Welles sleight-of-handed Caesar the role of a fascist. Hollywood's Joe Mankiewicz saw his Caesar as a kind of tired, pompous stockbroker. Shaw's hero in Caesar and Cleopatra is a worldly-wise but disenchanted superman whom power has made not mad, but sad. Front-rank Historical Novelist Duggan (The Little Emperors) throws dirt on these literary ghosts by spading straight for the facts and unearthing many a fascinating shard from ancient Roman political life...